Like yes sure, Russia is a very reactionary country but I wish the westerners good luck with trying to destroy Moscow the way it did Gaza.

Did these people forget the cold war?

This is not to say Hamas or the Houthis are weak ofcourse. Palestinians keep killing the IOF despite the JDAMs.

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    I first remember Russia was out of ammo and Moscow was about to be invaded any second now.

    Then I was told the TB2 drones were going to end Russia.

    Then I was told it was their lack of numbers.

    Then I was told it was their lack of winter clothes (no, they really said that).

    Then I was told himars would absolutely end them.

    Then I was told no it’s the cluster ammo.

    Then I was told the Leopard would end then.

    Then it was the JDAM.

    Then the Abrams and challenger tanks.

    Dont forget the french CAESAR

    You can check. All of those were about to turn the tide in a major way.

    They’re fighting the most hardened, experienced and numerous army in Europe, a trained and well equipped military with what is effectively the second largest military budget on the planet. And they’re still gaining ground.

    Meanwhile israel is getting absolutely owned by random bakers wearing tactical flip flops and firing homemade RPGs. Who don’t have air, ground or naval support whatsoever.

    Just like Americans got owned twice in a row in the same region before.

    Liberals have no idea what an actual war is. All their countries have done is fighting colonial expeditions before being told by their history books it was an unquestionable win and the complete lack of achievement or victory was actually the entire point of it.

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      I first remember Russia was out of ammo

      I remember when Russia was out of ammo and fuel, stranded in a 60km convoy outside Kyiv, and Ukraine scored exactly zero hits on the convoy

      If I remember right it actually did happen that the convoy ran dry on fuel for a few days and it should have been disastrous for them. The fact that they weren’t eaten alive by Ukranian Su-25s should’ve been the wakeup call for libs

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      You forgot the classic: the Russians forgot to turn the tires of their trucks.

      Dude predicted all Russian trucks would break down in no more than 3 weeks because they all forgot to turn the tires based on a single “enhanced” photo.

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            You’re too late. in a fit of (actual, literal) mania I wrote a white paper explaining how we can ground-detonate nukes in the Sahara to create a massive planet-cooling series of dust clouds. Sure, there will be some undesirable side effects, but tritium makes your bones strong.

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        Pulling mothballed F-111s and F-4s out of the boneyard to ship them to ukkkraine by boat because they sure as shit can’t fly, and insisting that this marks a major turning point against the RuZZian uruks and that victory is imminent

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        I still don’t understand the hype around F-16s. It’s an ancient platform and it’s not like Ukraine can maintain any form of air superiority long enough to deploy smart bombs…

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          No, see, yes they can because the F-16 is just that good.

          You simply do not understand how much better our fighter jets are than Russian fighter jets. American air power could win instantly if we wanted it to. We’re just choosing not to deploy it.

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    Liberals think Russian military is the same as Hamas or the Houthis

    To libs, every person from anywhere east of Berlin is part of the same Mongol horde

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      The French are surrender monkeys who lack courage of their convictions except when they’re rioting against the government in which case they’re naughty children.

      The Spanish/Italians/Greeks are lazy brown people.

      The Arabs are all psychotic zealots living in barren desserts because they’re too stubborn to embrace modernity.

      The Sub-Saharan Africans are starving babies with ebola.

      The Indians are that kid from Slumdog Millionaire - dumb, horny, broke, and only relevant because they got lucky somehow

      The Chinese are a hive of Communist bees.

      Everyone in Latin America is a drug kingpin trying to break into the American Southwest and steal it.

      Australia, the UK, and Canada are different kinds of New York comedy routines.

      Only America matters. Only America can win. Only America forever and ever. Nothing will ever change. America stay winning. America.

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      During the First World War, Germans became part of the Mongol horde too.

      See: Germans getting called “Huns” during WW1

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      This really gets me the most abou all this. Like this is the type of fact you could’ve picked up from a number of videogames, even, and it still doesn’t land

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    Part of me wonders what these suburban lotus eaters are gonna think when the Ukrainian military collapses

    But another part of me knows these dipshits can twist any new information to fit their unfalsifiable orthodoxy and will probably pull a “stabbed in the back” myth out their ass

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      Either they go “stabbed in the back” or they just move on and delete their old signs of support. I think it depends on the severity of the blowback, and since I imagine it being mostly contained to Europe, I don’t think these dipshits will give a shit.

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        yeah the ability to turn around and say they “we all knew it” when they are proven wrong beyond any doubt is unparalleled

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        I kind of hope they run the ‘stabbed in the back’ play; whatever ukronazis remain will DEFINITELY find a reason to have it up and stuck for settler-Amerikans after that point.

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      Look what happened in Afghanistan. The whole thing fell over while Americans were still loading at the airport. Everyone in the West got super angry for a couple weeks then proceeded to memory hole it

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      I wonder if the military refugees will get the same special treatment that South Vietnamese military refugees got. They’ll probably be more ghoulish because they can’t let a white nation fall to the Slavic Horde (they will forget that ukrainians are slavs too)

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      I call goal change, “it was always the goal of western intervention to ensure Russia only got <x y z> and no more than that”. Excluding the fact that Russia was trying heavily to peacefully negotiate for x y z 10 years ago.

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      Probably similar to their Afghanistan excuses. “Oh we did everything we could but the locals were too corrupt and cowardly to use our equipment correctly”

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      They will suddenly and openly embrace the “proxy war” narrative that we’ve been talking about since before the invasion started, like it was always their goal of supporting Ukraine to “fight them over there so that we don’t have to fight them over here” instead of “total victory by UwU smolbean-arino Ukraine over the eBiL totalitarian stinky head Vladimir Putin and HIS Russia.”

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    Liberals think they’re winning but have to beg for extra money to send shit to ukraine and get mad da tankies for somehow influencing morale and government decision making lol. For a bunch of winners they sure are acting like losers.